Saturday, January 28, 2017

Asian Adventure - Part 3

We finish our visit to Vietnam with a visit to Ho Chi Min City (Saigon).

This is the grand palace. Inside it is stuck in the 60s as far as design goes. I overheard a visitor saying it wasn't old enough because it was built post war. I think this person needs to go back to his history book and see the damage done during the war . . . It is a cold war relic with the bomb shelter below to prove it!

This was one of the pieces of "art"/gifts inside. Animal rights have a long way to go, but after seeing this, we can agree we have come a long way!

We stopped at a lacquer workshop. It was cool to see them making the pieces and we did purchase a piece for our art collection. (Our walls are decorated with pieces we love from our trips).

Our piece - it is straight just not in this picture, surrounded by things from Japan

This is the post office that was designed by a very famous architect - Mr. Eiffel.

This was my favourite Buddha from the entire trip.

This is how the bikes were parked outside a market - Crazy! Vietnam has 90 million people and 45 million bikes/scooters.

Slums in the city.

Come back next week when we take a break from sight seeing and talk about living on a boat for 14 days!

My husband spent 90 days over there as his company has a manufacturing facility that he was helping with the design and set up of some new equipment. He used to send me photos of people on the scooters laden with baskets of ducks or huge bundles of flowers. How they managed to stay upright was beyond me. Looking at the slums I'm very grateful we live where we do.

Woo! Hoo! LOVE the pictures! What an adventure. I am so glad that you are sharing your photos and your experiences. Speaking of experiences, mes KNOWS Phenny will loves learning the tips that yous is posting for him! Mes thinks they is purrfect! And yous guys has the bestest dates for the dance ever! KissesNellieSorry wes not posting our comments on each blog post. Wes reads yous guys adventures in bed on the tablet and its hard to comment with those tiny onscreen keys.

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